The Genographic Project (Have Your DNA Checked, Find Your Roots)

National Geographic - IBM ^ | 6-15-2005

[LibWhacker]

This atlas is a very interesting thing to play with over at the National Geographic website. Just click on the time scale at the top of the page to study the routes of that time period, then on the routes themselves to learn about them . . . A good way to waste an afternoon. :-)

[martin_fierro]

But what's that little wiggly thing beneath the mouth?

That would be the more offensive of:

• a goatee; or
• spittle.

< |:P~

[LibWhacker]

Cool, thanks! I'm going to agree.

[martin_fierro]

particilants = participants

I also have th mispelng jean.

[Pharmboy]

Wow!! Did you know you had some east Asian roots? Or did this come as a total surprise?

[martin_fierro]

Oh, I defintely knew ... but was surprised to see the migration route my ancestors took.

Did you opt for sharing your DNA information with FamilyTreeDNA? I did, and am seeing some results for genetically-related people mostly in Japan and Korea.

[blam]

That probably was Stepehen Oppenheimer. See post #51.

[Pharmboy]

No...I had not opted for that but I think I will. This stuff is fascinating.

[blam]

"Did you opt for sharing your DNA information with FamilyTreeDNA? I did, and am seeing some results for genetically-related people mostly in Japan and Korea."

I just tried to overlay your map to the map I linked in post #51. You must have been in a group that filled the void left by Toba 74,000 years ago. Take a look...what do you think?

[blam]

"No...I had not opted for that but I think I will. This stuff is fascinating."

I just decided. I'm gonna do it.

[Mo1]

You'll submit the sample through our secure, private, and completely anonymous system, then log on to the project Web site to track your personal results online,/i>

Yea right .... / sarcasm >

[antceecee]

LOL!

[M. Dodge Thomas]

"It seems he feels we are all African and these Africans traveled to different parts of the world to become different ethnic groups."

I haven’t read about this stuff for a while, but ten years or so back the then current theory based on evidence from mitochondrial DNA was that homo sapiens at one time passed though a genetic “choke point” where out ancestral population had been reduced to a very small group, almost certainly located in Africa.

If so at least in that sense, we are all “African-Americans”.

[TX Bluebonnet]

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[Eva]

This got me started doing some genealogic research on my family, looking for a Scandanavian link. I didn't find one so far, but I did find out that my relative who crossed the Delaware with Washington, was also part of Hartley's Raiders, the expedition through western PA and New York against the Indians, in retaliation for the massacre at Fort Wyoming. It's fascinating stuff. I have a very interesting family history, including William Moore, the pirate who led the mutiny on Captain Kidd's ship and was killed by Kidd, resulting in Kidd being hung.

[I'm ALL Right!]

Irish, Black Dutch, French, Norwegian, and Cherokee. I'm a mutt.

[blam]

"I haven’t read about this stuff for a while, but ten years or so back the then current theory based on evidence from mitochondrial DNA was that homo sapiens at one time passed though a genetic “choke point” where out ancestral population had been reduced to a very small group, almost certainly located in Africa."

The 'bottleneck' was caused by the Volcano Toba explosion 74,000 years ago that sent the earth into a 'hard' Ice Age environment. Only 2-10,000 humans survived worldwide...the deaths were worldwide and not linked to just the site of the eruption. There was a tremendous amount of 'branching' just after this incident and another 23-18,000 years ago during the Last Glacial Maximum(LGM).

[martin_fierro]

I'm sure that as more results come in, more similar genetic links will turn up.

[martin_fierro]

You must have been in a group that filled the void left by Toba 74,000 years ago. Take a look...what do you think?

Either that, or I'm part of the group who passed through the area before Toba, and on to the Korean peninsula.

I'll have to really ask some hard questions at the next family reunion. < |:)~

[CobaltBlue]

My husband has sent in his test but no results back yet. I just nagged my mother, she promises she'll do hers "tomorrow."